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1847–1868

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Birth Date
5 September 1798
Death Date
5 April 1878
Gender
Female
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Sarah Leavitt


Alternate Names

    Sarah Sturdevant

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  • Sarah traveled with six of her children. One son (Lemuel) came a year earlier, and another (Jeremiah) came with his family in 1852.

    The 1850 Utah Census index incorrectly shows the family's surname as "Leairff."

Milo Andrus Company (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 51
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Dudley Leavitt (Age: 19)
  • Mary Amelia Hamblin (Age: 18)
  • Thomas Rowell Leavitt (Age: 15)
  • Betsey Jane Leavitt (Age: 12)
  • Sarah Priscilla Leavitt (Age: 9)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census.
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • Dudley Leavitt, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013.
  • Leithead, James, [Journal], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 42:18, 28-35.
  • Thomas Rowell Leavitt, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013.